The Oscars took a ratings nosedive, tallying one of the smallest audience’s in show history, network officials said Monday.

The “88th Annual Academy Awards” was watched by 34.3 million people in the United States, which barely ticked over 2008 (32 million) and 2003 (33 million).

Sunday night marked the third-least-watched Academy Awards show since Nielsen began to count total viewership in 1974.

The show drew 36.6 million viewers in 2015 with host Neil Patrick Harris, 43.7 million in 2014 with Ellen DeGeneres at the mic and 40.3 million in 2013 with Seth MacFarlane running the show.

The 2002 and 2008 shows were hosted by Steve Martin and Jon Stewart, respectively.

African-American activists asked viewers to boycott Sunday night’s show after the academy, for a second consecutive year, nominated only white actors for its top honors. More complete ratings numbers are expected to be released later this week.

“The early reports of a decline in the Oscar viewership is heartening to those of us that campaigned around asking citizens to tune out,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who had called for an Oscars boycott. “This is a significant decline and should send a message to the Academy and to movie studio heads.”

Sharpton conceded other factors might be responsible for the ratings dip.

“Though clearly we don’t take full credit for the decline, certainly one would have to assume we were effective and part of the decline,” he said. “And to those that mocked the idea of a tune-out, it seems the joke was on them.”